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A restaurant cook is someone whose responsibility it is to prepare and cook various appetizers, entrees and desserts; to ensure the ingredients used are fresh; to make sure the work area is clean; and to have any necessary equipment readily available. Restaurant cooks follow recipes, mix ingredients, and prepare many types of foods, using various cooking methods, such as braising, steaming, baking and broiling.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

There are a number of chef qualifications that you need before you can get a job in any restaurant, pub, hotel, on a cruise ship, or at a retail outlet. There are hundreds of culinary schools that you can attend to receive your diploma or degree in the culinary arts. Even if you don’t have formal qualification, you can use your skills to get a job in the area of the hospitality industry that you enjoy. Most chefs and head cooks learn their skills through work experience.

JOB MARKET

Reports indicate that there should be plenty of job openings of chefs, cooks, and other culinary workers in the future years. This is a very large occupation and there is a greater demand for skilled cooks in this field. Employment of chefs and head cooks is projected to grow 9 percent from 2014 to 2024, faster than the average for all occupations. Chefs are mainly employed in: Accommodation and Food Services; Health Care and Social Assistance; and Manufacturing.

CHALLENGES FACED BY THE JOB ROLE

Lack of skilled chefs with the necessary quality is a great trouble in hospitality sector. Shortage of talented chefs threatens to slow the industry’s growth. The major problem with Tourism sector is the difficulty in finding enough people with the right experience and language skills. The challenges faced by the job role are skill shortage, mainly practical skills that are related to this particular job role.

WHAT WE DO FOR EMPLOYERS IN SUCH A CONTEXT?

It is not new that companies identify the challenge of recruiting qualified skilled workers. They cannot find individuals with the knowledge and skills they need and they are constantly faced with turnover and lost productivity. They may find candidates who are qualified formally but may not be satisfied with their work as the candidates may not possess the actual skill that the company was in want of a particular job role. In such case, we act as succor to find right skilled candidates for them.

WHAT WE DO FOR EMPLOYEES?

There are many unemployed graduates in our country today. It is because their qualifications and skills do not match job market needs. A mere 20% of today’s workforce has the skills needed for 60% of the jobs that will be arising within the next five to ten years. So it is not important whether you are graduated or not but it is time to upgrade your skills to suit for a particular job that you apply for. To solve the imbalance, all you need is to assess your skills based on your job role and get skill assessed. If you choose to, we will assess your skills. And if you encounter a skill gap, we’ll provide you with the gap filling opportunity to acquire more contemporary, relevant skills and continue your career journey. We will act as an aid to get you fit into appropriate jobs. We will also send your Skill Assessment Record to various HR and industrial heads for better placement opportunities.

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